Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transfer them to a small tube or box containing a few leaves from the same plant and take them home . |
| 2 | Melissa drove a pale and silent Rose back to the auberge , and Dora followed a few minutes later . |
| 3 | Hill and Whitlow taking a few chances in their own half and finally Whitlow 's dispossessed and it comes to Collimore . |
| 4 | I did not see the production until the following Christmas , when it contained an amusing touch which I imagine John must have added that year , after Leonide Massine had revived The Three-cornered Hat at Covent Garden : Hansel and Gretel danced a few steps with a bunch of grapes , a good-humoured quotation from the dance of the miller and his wife in Massine 's ballet . |
| 5 | Rugs employing this scheme are becoming increasingly rare and , although it may still be found on some workshop items , the only group to use it with any regularity are the Abadeh weavers of south central Persia , India and Pakistan make a few rugs in this design . |
| 6 | Jenny and Antony moved a few inches further apart , then giggled at each other because of the involuntary movement . |
| 7 | this case concerns a claim for pain and suffering lasting a few seconds prior to death arising from the hillsborough incident . |
| 8 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 9 | Some products and places provide a few exceptions to this pattern , as we shall discover in the next chapter , and there were considerable , if patchy and delayed , efforts towards ‘ re-industrialization ’ ( Chapter 10 ) , which created the estimated increase of manufacturing employment across all regions of the North from 1987 to 1989 , averaging 1.4 per cent , probably arrested by 1990 . |
| 10 | As another explained , ‘ To most people a family row is Mummy and Daddy having a few words ’ , but when police are called to a domestic dispute in some areas of Belfast , |
| 11 | The lopped neck and head lay a few feet away , and starving cats licked the blood-soaked earth . |
| 12 | Try to establish a basic float by persuading friends and well-wishers to contribute a few pounds : £20 , £30 or £50 should be sufficient . |
| 13 | She wrote that she would prefer not to come home , but Tony and Maureen got a few days ' leave and travelled to Kent to see her . |
| 14 | Cameron and Menzies collected a few names for their lists of contacts — the tall old man , who came from Camusvachan in Glen Lyon , the red-haired MacLennan brothers from Foss . |
| 15 | listened to transmission from the Kittyhawk and Bill offered a few suggestions as Dick became familiar with his mount . |
| 16 | ‘ My dear Tom spoke of the place as an undeveloped shambles with Matt living there alone , although I 've now heard that he and Silas accommodate a few guests . |
| 17 | " Great-grandfather , you must know already that I did all I could to stop Kim taking the gibbon , " he said , whispering aloud in the hope that his fervent words might be audible to his father and grandfather standing a few feet away . |
| 18 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 19 | We did some of the old songs and Carl wrote a few things that we did new . |
| 20 | The Mexico–Australia , Paraguay–USA , and Paraguay–France matches a few years ago were other notorious examples . |
| 21 | Crewkerne , the nearest post town , was the frequent destination of other walks , and on one occasion Wordsworth and Dorothy continued a few miles further to take in Hinton House , the home of Earl Poulett . |
| 22 | There was a polite shunting of chairs to make space for an extra one , and Eliot managed a few pleasantries while Shildon looked thoroughly annoyed by the intrusion and Harbury could not contain his delight . |
| 23 | Electricity shares bucked the trend and rallied , but water sprang a few leaks . |
| 24 | Knight bannerets of the king 's household stopped them but Cranston muttered a few words and they let him by . |